US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on June 16 for "Distributed optimization for hybrid ac-dc microgrid" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,716, issued on June 16, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Distributed optimization for hybrid ac-dc microgrid" was invented by Chinmay Shah (Peoria, Ill.), Lalit Kishore Marepalli (Peoria, Ill.), Gregory Scott Hasler (Pekin, Ill.) and Sowmya Nagesh (Peoria, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microgrid system includes a plurality of energy resource systems, including direct current (DC) energy resource systems and alternating current (AC) energy resource systems, configured to supply power to a microgrid; a plurality of local controllers respectively associated with an energy resource system for controlling the resp...